Coin-box.



A. LONSON.

COIN BOX.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-11.1916.

l ,2 l 2, 522 Patented Jan. 16, 1 917.

4 gunnin I" p I ALBERT LONSON, OF CALLAWAY, MINNESOTA.

COIN-BOX.

Original application filed March 16, 1916, Serial No. 84,636.

Serial No. 119,524.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT LoNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Callaway, in the county of Becker and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Coin-Box, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to coin boxes, and its object is to provide a coin box for use in banks, and other business houses, or where it is desired to have coins in convenient arrangement for handling or storage, or both, the coin box being of a-size to hold a definite sum of money.

In accordance with the invention there is provided a box or receptacle which may be of tray like form, and is customarily made of card board, although other suitable materials will answer. Within the box is lodged a nest in the form of one or more blocks, usually of wood, with transversely arranged grooves, the box being customarily, although not necessarily, longer than wide. The grooves may be concave in cross section, to conform to the shape of the coins for which the box is designed, while the sides of the box have notches or recesses in them through which the coins in the grooves may be readily grasped. I

Extending lengthwise midway of the width of the grooved block or blocks is a bar, usually of wood, and constituting a partition extending to a less height than the top edges of the walls separating the transverse grooves. The bar is customarily made rectangular in cross section, and constitutes a fixed partition in the completed box separating each groove into a pair of grooves with the edge of the bar, constituting the upper edge in the customary position of the box, stopping short of the top of the division walls of the grooves to thereby provide a convenient finger space so that the user may, with the thumb and one finger, grasp a group of coins lodged in the groove between the partition and a corresponding edge of the box.

It is sometimes advantageous from an economical point of view to make the nest of more than one block or piece and in such case the bar forming the intermediate partition serves as a stiffening member for the blocks making up the nest. In any event, the bar together with the side walls of the receptacle serves to strengthen the grooved Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 16, 1917.

Divided and this application filed September block Or blocks, which have the two parts on opposite sides of the central groove joined only by bridge pieces of relatively very small cross section.

It is customary to provide a suitable cover for the receptacle so that when the box is not in use with the coins exposed such coins are protected from escape or from accumulations of dust or dirt.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, with the further understanding that while the drawing shows a practical form of the invention, the latter is not confined to strict conformity with the showing of the drawing, but may be changed and modified, so long as such changes and modifications come within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view of a coin box with a nest consisting of a single block and with the cover removed. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross section along the center line of one of the grooves. Fig. 4: is a plan view similar to Fig. 1, but illustrating a type of box in which more than one block is used to make up the nest. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4, with the cover in place, but showing a portion of one end of the receptacle in elevation. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the partition bar.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a tray like box or receptacle 1, which will differ in size for coin boxes designed to contain different sums of money and different kinds of coins. The receptacle 1 is usually of rectangular outline and is customarily made of card board orpaste board, although the invention is not limited to any particular materials for the purpose, The receptacle or body member is usually as deep as or somewhat deeper than the diameter of the coins for which it is intended, and within the receptacle or box there is lodged a nest 2 comprising in the particular showing of the drawings a single block, as shown in Fig. 1 or two like blocks placed end to end, as shown in Fig. 4. The block, on what constitutes its upper face when in use, is provided with a longitudinal series "of transverse grooves 3, each groove being separated from the neighboring groove by a narrow ridge or wall 4. The nest 2, w hich is customarily, though not necessarily, made of wood in the form of one or more blocks, has in its under face a longitudinal groove 6 intersecting the grooves 3, but stopping short of the upper surface of the nest, so

that the portions of the block on opposite sides of the groove 6 are joined by ridges or bridge walls 4. The longitudinal groove 6, which extends along the longitudinal center line of the block or alined blocks making up the nest contains a bar or partition 7 lodged therein. he bar 7 is of rectangular cross section and corresponds in length, width and height to the groove 6, so as to substantially fill the latter, and since the groove 6 intersects the grooves 3, the bar 7 correspondingly intersects the grooves 3 and constitutes a partition for each groove dividing it into two parts of substantially equal size. The bar 7 enters the grooves 3 to an extent less than the depth of the grooves, the extent of entrance of the bar into the grooves through the bottom of the latter being determined by the ridges or bridge walls 4 against the under edges of which the bar 7 may engage.

The side walls of the receptacle or box 1 are formed with a longitudinal series of notches 8, preferably, though not necessarily, of approximately semi-circular form with each notch matching a corresponding groove 3. The notches 8 and the spaces separating stacks of coins lodged in the grooves 3 which spaces are formed by the division bar 7, provide finger room for grasping the two ends of a stack of coins lodged in either section of a groove 3, whether these coins be wrapped or loose.

To protect the coins when within the box from dislodgment therefrom, and also from accumulations of dust and dirt, a cover 9 is provided which cover may be removed when the box is in use for the reception or disbursement of coins.

Ordinarily, the coin box is made to hold a definite number of coins in the unwrapped condition. For example, the box in Fig. 1

may have the curvature of the grooves 3 conforming to the curvature of a silver half dollar and the length of each section of the grooves may be such as to contain ten half dollars each. Under such circumstances, the box will contain one hundred dollars in silver half dollars. Again, in the structure of Fig. 4, each section of each divided groove 3 may be of such curvature and length as to contain say twenty-five dimes, in which case the box when full would have fifty dollars in dimes therein.

In the completed coin box, the block or blocks making up the nest are secured in any suitable manner in the receptacle 1 with the bar 7 confined with the groove 6, the end walls of the receptacle preventing any displacement of the parts, while the comparatively fragile ridges or bridge walls 4 are stifi'ened by the partition bar 7, wherefore shocks or jars to which the coin box may be subjected under conditions of use, do not affect the ridges 4 to an extent to damage them. The bar 7, therefore, serves both as a partition bar and as a stiffening bar. By the employment of a separate bar like the bar 7 and grooving the block or blocks 2 for the reception of the bar, the construction of the coin box is much simplified and cheapened with the further advantage that the coins are stacked in convenient quantities for handling. 7

For comparatively short and relatively wide boxes, a single block is suflicient for a nest, while for manufacturing reasons it is advantageous to construct longer boxes of more than one block to a nest. l/Vith the multiple block nests, the division bar 7 also constitutes an alining bar.

In the commercial form of the invention and one that has proven acceptable upon the market, the box 1 and its cover 9 have been made of paste-board or card-board, or the like material, while the block or blocks constituting the nest 2 and also the partition bar 7 have been made of wood. As customary in structures of the character of the present invention, the box and the nest are usually fastened together by small nails, or may be otherwise secured together if found desirable. It will be understood, however, that the' particular materials referred to as being used in the construction of the coin box are not at all obligatory and other materials may be used in their place.

This application is a division of my application number 84,636, filed March 16, 1916.

The bar 7 herein shown and described has its long edges straight and all the longitudinal faces plane, in oontradistinction to having one longitudinal face provided with transverse recesses conforming to the curvature of the grooves 3, such recessed bar being shown, described and claimed in the aforesaid application.

What is claimed is 1. A coin box comprising a body member or receptacle and a nest for coins having spaced transverse grooves adapted to re= ceive the coins with each groove separated at the top edges from each neighboring groove by a narrow ridge or wall, and said nest also having a substantially central longitudinal groove in the face remote from the first named grooves and intersecting the first named grooves up to the separating narrow ridges or walls, and a bar formed separately from the nest and lodged in the longitudinal groove, said bar being of angular cross-sec tion with its long faces plane.

2. A coin box comprising a body member or receptacle, and a nest having spaced transverse grooves adapted to receive coins with each groove separated at the top edges from each neighboring groove by a narrow ridge or wall, and said nest also having a substantially central longitudinal groove in the face remote from the first named grooves and entering said first named grooves from the bottoms thereof up to the separating narrow ridges or walls, and a permanently located bar formed separately from the nest and lodged in the longitudinal groove up to the narrow ridges or walls separating the grooves, said bar being of substantially constant cross-section throughout and constituting a partition permanently dividing each transverse groove into coin receiving pockets between the bars and the sides of the body member or receptacle.

3. A coin box comprising a body member or receptacle with a nest therein for coins having a longitudinal series of transverse grooves in one face and a longitudinal groove in the face remote from the first named grooves and intersecting the latter from their bottom portions for a portion of the distance to the tops of the grooves, and a bar of substantially constant cross-section throughout with all its long faces plane, said bar being formed separately from the nest and substantially coincident in-length with and permanently lodged in the longitudinal groove to constitute a fixed partition common to the first named grooves and dividing each of them into coin receiving pockets between the bar and the sides of the body member or receptacle.

4:. A coin box comprising a body member or receptacle with a nest therein for coins having a longitudinal series of transverse grooves in one face and a longitudinal groove of substantially rectangular cross section in the face remote from the first named grooves and intersecting the latter from their bottom portions for a portion of the distance to the tops of the grooves, and

a bar of substantially rectangular cross section and longitudinally plane throughout and of a length, width and thickness corresponding to the similar dimensions of the longitudinal groove and permanently lodged therein to constitute a fixed partition common to the first named grooves and dividing each of them into coin receiving pockets between the bar and the sides of the body member or receptacle.

5. A coin receiving means comprising a block having series of transverse grooves in one face adapted to receive coins on edge and a groove in the opposite face extending longitudinally of the series and intersecting or cutting the first named grooves from the bottoms of the latter toward the tops thereof and stopping short of the tops of the grooves, and a bar of a length equal to the combined widths of a plurality of the transverse grooves and of substantially constant cross section corresponding to the largest crosssection of the longitudinal groove, said bar being permanently lodged in the longitudinal groove and constituting a fixed partition for the transverse grooves dividing them into coin receiving pockets between the bar and the ends of the transverse grooves. 6. The combination with a tray-like body, of a nest therein having a series of spaced parallel transversely arranged grooves, and a bar of angular cross-section formed separately from and fixedly lodged in the nest on the face thereof remote from the grooves and entering and dividing the grooves into pairs of coin-receiving pockets on opposite sides of the bar, the latter being of angular cross-section with all the long faces plane.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT LONSON.

Witnesses:

W. M. GALLAGHER, ToM LONSON.

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